Shelby Skrhak

Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.

13 Things You Never Knew About Thanksgiving

By Shelby Skrhak / November 22, 2018 /

For this installment of my sometimes weekly motivation column, I offer these 13 things you never knew about Thanksgiving. May your D/FW Thanksgiving be full of grace, and may you avoid the meat sweats. 1. Friends produced a Thanksgiving-themed episode nearly every year of its 10-year run, except for one: 1995, Season two’s “The One…

New Odasi App Is Like Uber for Real Estate Agents

By Shelby Skrhak / November 20, 2018 /

A new real estate app called Odasi (pronounced Od-Uh-See), an acronym for On Demand Agent Services Inc., helps agents delegate small tasks, essentially helping them be in two places at once. The newly launched app takes the power of the shared service economy to create the Uber for real estate agents. It is a business-to-business…

Richardson Has 70s Beauties As Well As Current Custom Estates

By Shelby Skrhak / November 18, 2018 /

For this week’s Suburb Sunday, we head just north of LBJ to check out three Richardson homes for sale with unique styles from the 70s and today, ranging from approximately $280,000 to $750,000. Richardson is located northeast of Dallas, just south of Plano. About 106,000 people call Richardson home, where they enjoy top-rated Richardson ISD…

Here’s Your First Look at First-of-its-Kind Neighborhood Goods Store

By Shelby Skrhak / November 17, 2018 /

For months, all we knew about the new Neighborhood Goods flagship opening today in Plano’s Legacy West was what the Dallas founders Matt Alexander and Mark Masinter called a modern alternative to — and evolution of — department stores as we know them. Now, we know why. The 14,000-square-foot store features an ever-changing selection of…

You’ll Love the High-End Touches on This Entry-Level Rowlett Home

By Shelby Skrhak / November 16, 2018 /

When you’ve got 1,137 square feet to work with, you want to make the most of every inch, and this tastefully renovated three-bedroom, two-bath home in Rowlett does an amazing job at it. The home, listed for $190,000 by Kathie Truitt and Kevin Caskey of Halo Group Realty is well-situated at Miller Road and President…